Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the ancient Roman baths, an apartment heated to a certain temperature to prepare the body for the great heat of the hot and vapor baths, or to serve as a palliative to the cold of the frigidarium; also, the boiler in which the water was heated for the hot bath.
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- noun A warm room in a
Roman baths that was usually heated by ahypocaust
Etymologies
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Examples
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Will Season 2 open with #Spartacus encountering Barca in the tepidarium?
get your SPARTACUS questions in hradzka 2010
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The Roman-style baths include an apodypterium , or changing room; a tepidarium , or warm room; and a caldarium , or hot room, along with a domed chamber for housing firewood.
Snapshot of a Civilization in the Making Christian C. Sahner 2010
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A layer of “dark earth” containing charcoal and bits of animal bone had accumulated to a depth of 1 foot 30 cm over the tepidarium floor, implying a considerable period of residential occupation.
Archive 2009-06-01 Carla 2009
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A layer of “dark earth” containing charcoal and bits of animal bone had accumulated to a depth of 1 foot 30 cm over the tepidarium floor, implying a considerable period of residential occupation.
Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure Carla 2009
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There were usually three different types of rooms available in the bath: the caldarium, the tepidarium, and the frigidarium.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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To the left of the Hellenic gate is the palaestra, an open area where young athletes would have exercised, and behind this is the Roman bath, divided as usual into frigidarium, caldarium, and tepidarium, depending on the temperature of the water.
Archive 2006-05-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006
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Next you take a quick plunge in the cold pools of the frigidarium or, if feeling weak of heart, cool off more gradually in the tepidarium.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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To the left of the Hellenic gate is the palaestra, an open area where young athletes would have exercised, and behind this is the Roman bath, divided as usual into frigidarium, caldarium, and tepidarium, depending on the temperature of the water.
Log of the Eclipse (5) Walter Jon Williams 2006
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There were usually three different types of rooms available in the bath: the caldarium, the tepidarium, and the frigidarium.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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Next you take a quick plunge in the cold pools of the frigidarium or, if feeling weak of heart, cool off more gradually in the tepidarium.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
bilby commented on the word tepidarium
Otherwyse knowne as a Bodie Cavitie, somewhat and wherefore above the Lefte Ventrickle, being in many cases the Repositorie of luke-warme Feelyngs.
October 21, 2008
frindley commented on the word tepidarium
You have reminded me of the body search.
October 21, 2008